Colorized photos

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Although we cannot get into the minds of the people waiting in a queue on a cold day in Chukotka, Soviet Union back in 1985 to get wine, or what the daredevil sky boys who built the Empire State Building in 1930-31 were thinking when balancing unsecured on the 88th floor, we can get a fairly good glimpse into the wonders of history.

It might come as a surprise, but it wasn't long after photography became widespread that experiments with color took place, creating vivid images which

Mark twain in color, circa 1900.

Source of Elegance on Instagram: "Preparing for a sinless 2023. ⠀ Princess Yvonne (13) and Prince Alexander (12) smoking and drinking on a yacht in Mallorca, 1955."

Tired of the endless series of black and white photos that were popular in the day, French banker Albert Kahn decided to do something about it. In 1909, he commissioned four photographers to take their cameras all around the world, and using Autochrome Lumière, to document in color what they saw.

London at the end of Victorian era was the most important city in the world. Take a tour of this city and era with these beautiful pictures of a bygone era.

Mervyn O'Gorman was an English engineer whose artistic interests turned him into one of the early pioneers of color photography. Using the Autochrome

These are some of the earliest Autochrome photos showing the life in New York in the early 1900s. A Monday washing, New York City, 1900 ...

Eva and Heinz

"El límite de una persona es la piel, si hablamos de algo palpable. El límite de su alma, o de su esencia, o de lo verdaderamente importante es una cosa algo

One hundred and twenty years ago, the Romanov royal dynasty hosted the most extravagant and eccentric costume ball in the history of the Russian Empire. It was also the last.

The Romanov Family 1913.

Colorized portrait

Color images of the Russian Empire in Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii’s gorgeous photos, the goofy Romanovs and Olga Shirnina stirring colorized pictures of Russians in World War 1 take us back. In this gallery we see Olga’s work on photographs from World War 2. See more of Olga Shirnina’s work on her website.